[Wine] Problem on installing MS VM on wine

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Mon Aug 13 11:14:52 CDT 2007


Wouldn't it be much easier to install ies4linux, then symlink to .wine?

rm -rf .ies4linux .wine
./ies4linux
ln -s .ies4linux .wine

On 8/13/07, L. Rahyen <research at science.su> wrote:
> On Monday August 13 2007 07:27, Stephen Liu wrote:
> > $ wine_double_install -s ~/.wine-tmp -d /.ies4linux/ie6
> > msjavx86b3805.exe MSJavWU_8073687b82d41db93f4c2a04af2b34d.exe
>
>         This command has an error and will not work. Note these errors:
>
> > Applying source filesystem changes to the destination... mkdir: cannot
> > create directory `/.ies4linux': Permission denied
> > mkdir: cannot create directory `/.ies4linux': Permission denied
> > cp: cannot create regular file
> > `/.ies4linux/ie6/drive_c/windows/vminst.log': No such file or directory
>
>         This is because of wrong parameter "-d /.ies4linux/ie6". Obviously this will
> not work! It should be "-d ~/.ies4linux/ie6". Also before running the command
> please execute this (as a simple user):
>
> sudo chown -R `whoami` ~/.ies4linux
> sudo chmod -R u+rw ~/.ies4linux
>
>         To make sure that you have all necessary permissions. And run
> wine_double_install as a simple user too.
>         Make sure that at "Applying source filesystem changes to the destination... "
> stage there is no any errors! If there is errors then check for wrong
> permissions or wrong source/destination and fix this.
>         NOTE: make sure that you have ies4linux installed in your home directory as a
> simple user! You shouldn't have it outside of /home/! My script assumes that
> both source and destination is in /home/someone/ directory because this is
> ONLY proper path for any WINEPREFIX. I suppose I should add a check for that
> in my script later... For now just make sure that both source and destination
> begins with either "~/" or "/home/someone/".
>
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